UMD Bulldogs "ALLETE" Moments: Classroom

Owen Leach wasn't thinking about the impact he could make on a stranger's life last spring on the campus of the University of Minnesota Duluth. The current redshirt freshman men's basketball player walked into the Romano Gym lobby and saw other UMD athletes promoting the NMPD – formerly Be The Match – cheek swabs, and was waived over by Bulldog football player. Leach obliged, thinking he would just do it because the student athlete asked him to. He had no idea he would get the opportunity of a lifetime.

UMD Bulldogs "ALLETE" Moments: Classroom

The University of Minnesota Duluth Athletics Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Council, in collaboration with the UMD Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and the UMD Black Men Serving Excellence (BMSE), will hold a clothing drive benefiting K-12 youth starting this Friday.